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The Murray-Darling Basin shows why the ‘social cost of water’ concept won’t work

Access to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries. Fights over water can be expected to intensify as the world warms, evaporation increases and rainfall becomes less predictable. So we’ll need to work even harder to resolve disputes and share this precious […]

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Four in 40: water treatment systems podcast

The Water Research Centre in conjunction with SA Water Knowledge Sharing Seminar presented “New advances in treatment systems for water”, the latest Four in 40 forum, on Thursday 15 August. Speakers included: Christian Doonan, Director of Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials, the University of Adelaide: Advances in designer membrane technologies Jim Kelly, CEO, Arris Water: The […]

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